Provoke Quotes

173 Provoke quotes by 153 unique authors

Whether the darken'd room to muse invite, Or whiten'd wall provoke the skew'r to write; In durance, exile, Bedlam, or the Mint, Like Lee or… — Alexander Pope
Thou breeze, That mak'st an organ of the mighty sea, Obedient to thy wilful phantasies, Provoke him not to scorn; but soft and low, As… — Hartley Coleridge
I love that you can be laughing one minute and crying the next, and then be shocked the next. I like things that provoke emotions… — Courteney Cox
My opinion is that somebody certainly has the right to do cartoons that make fun of somebody else's religion. But to reprint them just to… — David Byrne
I like to do movies that provoke rather than reinforce conservative values. — Steve Coogan
When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to… — Erica Jong
When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity by announcing his… — George Henry Lewes
It'll keep you alive for another 10 years if you get yourself a laugh once a day: either provoke it, or look around in the… — Jerry Lewis
I want to provoke people with thoughts, not by taking my clothes off. It's time to move on from Stripperville. — Marina and the Diamonds
Herr Schroder has conducted two electoral campaigns, and he is doing it again now, by not telling people what is really necessary. He keeps avoiding… — Angela Merkel
Writers should provoke disagreement. — V.S. Naipaul
The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions. — Edward Norton
No one doubts that poison gas was used in Syria. But there is every reason to believe it was used, not by the Syrian Army,… — Vladimir Putin
I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some… — Henry David Thoreau
A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent. — Elie Wiesel
Most exotic animals are not particularly interested in people, which makes it hard to provoke them. Human-rearing gets them used to and sometimes imprinted on… — Frans de Waal
People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone.… — Milan Kundera
Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder. Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels. Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies. Elves are glamorous. They project glamour. Elves… — Terry Pratchett
Youth need guidance, direction, and proper restraint...Parents, too, have a responsibility in this training not to provoke children to wrath. They should be considerate not… — David O. McKay
No writer in a free country should be expected to bother about the exact demarcation between the sensuous and the sensual; this is preposterous; I… — Vladimir Nabokov
This is my living faith, an active faith, a faith of verbs: to question, explore, experiment, experience, walk, run, dance, play, eat, love, learn, dare,… — Terry Tempest Williams
My belief is that art should not be comforting; for comfort, we have mass entertainment and one another. Art should provoke, disturb, arouse our emotions,… — Joyce Carol Oates
Books can also provoke emotions. And emotions sometimes are even more troublesome than ideas. Emotions have led people to do all sorts of things they… — Pseudonymous Bosch
What I should like to find is a crime the effects of which would be perpetual, even when I myself do not act, so that… — Marquis de Sade
Because they claim to be concerned with the welfare of whole societies, governments arrogate to themselves the right to pass off as mere abstract profit… — Michel Foucault

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